Romantic thriller The Perfect Guy exceeded predictions at the box office, opening strong and taking the top spot in ticket sales over the weekend. According to Entertainment Weekly, the film — starring Sanaa Lathan, Morris Chestnut, and Michael Ealy — was expected to gross between $15 to $17 million. However, it raked in a cool $26.7 million. In The Perfect Guy, Lathan plays a […]
Russell Simmons will continue his long-time partnership with HBO, The Hollywood Reporter has learned. The music and media mogul signed an overall deal with the network through his new company, All Def Digital. Five projects have been launched, with three being developed currently though ADD. One includes a weekly televised version of All Def Digital’s comedy night, a Def […]
Hollywood’s favorite couple is putting on their production hats for a new teen comedy, Shadow and Act reports. Will Smith and his wife Jada Pinkett Smith landed a deal with Sony Pictures to produce a high school comedy currently titled Ultra. Few details are known about the project, but it will be considered an R-rated flick. Smith’s production […]
Who saw this one coming? Rapper-entrepreneur 50 Cent filed for chapter 11 bankruptcy today (July 13). 50 Cent (real name Curtis Jackson III) filed the…
Despite a pledge to usher in a new era of diversity and inclusion, social media giant Twitter employs just 49 Black people out of a U.S. workforce of 2,910, The Guardian reports. That comes out to 1.7 percent of Twitter’s U.S. staff, the site notes. And the slim numbers seem even more bleak when contrasted […]
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